Example sentences of "['s] death [verb] the " in BNC.

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1 Nouhak Phoumsavan , who after Kaysone 's death became the highest-ranking member of the LPRP politburo , was elected as state President at a special session of the Supreme People 's Assembly held on Nov. 25 .
2 For Ebbo , after five years in custody at the monastery of Fleury , Louis the Pious 's death unlocked the prison door : the abbot of Fleury brought him to Ingelheim , where Lothar took him under his wing .
3 Hoccleve 's death marked the end of the first quarter of the fifteenth century .
4 Gwynne retired to Hamburg , a sad and lonely figure , ‘ rusting for want of the conversation I was used to ’ , until Queen Anne 's death opened the way for him to return to England .
5 Only after Pericles ' death did the rot set in , when the people insisted on following so-called " demagogue revealing word — like Cleon , who evidently did not know how to behave , but curried favour with " the rabble " by calculated populist gestures : " He was the first " , wrote Aristotle , " to indulge in shouting and scurrilous abuse from the rostrum , and to address the people with his clothes tucked up like a common labourer , whereas all his predecessors had spoken with dignity and properly dressed . "
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